Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-08-24
Mahone's Canyass-A Fire on his Front
and Rear.


,arty. and for his own benefit.
He had about eighty of his lieutenants-
If whom Messrs. WE. Craig and S. Brown
Allen. of Augusta, appear to be the PREFER
I'd leaders in this section-to consult with |
aim in Petersburg recently. No convon-
ion of the party will be held, is his edict
His campaign book embodying his record
in the U. S. Senate, as he promulgates it,
is evidently not correct history in many
particulars. For instance, see what the
Halley Virginian,a leading Republican pa
per, has to say of his doings in Congress,
denying the truth of his assertions. The
article appeared as an editorial
in the Valley Trginian Of the 18th inst;
eve publish elsewhere a synopsis of
pamphlet recently issued by Gen. Mahone
over his own signature. TO our mind It's
in the manner and form in
which it appears will not add to the lame
of the author, or contribute to Republican
success in the State. If every claim made
by him were correct, he would simply have
done his duty, for every man occupying
UQ6 pUBltlOA 0iet Wv % w tAAN N'''So >~-S
very best efforts.
But if Gen. hiahoEe's claim is well
grounded, then the Republican members
of the House from Virginia have been
mere collection of idle blockheads, with
out brains, energy or influence. 1t has
been popularly supposed that it was large
" through the efforts of Judge Paul. then
the member frosl that district, that pub
lie building was secured at Harrisonburg,
and certainly Mr.. Fulkerson, TIE then men,
her from the Ninth District, was TO some
extent instrumental in securing the build
ing at Abingdon. The same might be said
of Messrs. Libby, Wise, Hooper, Brady, Jor-
genson, and other Republican members,
whose districts were the beneficiaries OF
the governmental appropriations In the
sixty pages of Gen. Mahone'e book, the
name of no single Republican member OF
Congress from Virginia appears, nor could
it be inferred from tbs most careful peru
sal, that any one had rendered the slightest
assistance to the author in prosecuting the
work. Indeed, all and everything accom-
plished for the State within the past six
years is modestly appropriated by the Cen
eral himself and given to the world as the
result solely of his labor. That he worked
faithfully and effectively in behalf of Vir-
ginia, whilst in the Senate, pone will de-
nv. That every other Republican member
was inert, indifferent, and 2 stupid figure
head we are not prepared to believe. The
ex-senator may Justly claim credit for q
fair share of the benefits which have been
bestowed upon the State during his term
of Office. but is scarcely entitled to monop-
oily to the entire exclusion Of his col
leagues"
| Pertinent TO the same matter Gre from
the rear on the truth OF the Malone record
| is now copied. 1t is a correction made by
| Mr.. Charles W. Button, of Lynchburg, as
| to matter of fact and carries its own com
ments. Mr.. Buttons comments conclude
as follows:--
| s'But to the record-not of Malone, but
of ''the small fry" like Johnston, Withers
| Tucker, Cabell, Wise, Barbour and DAME
-qentlemen ali, that the Democrats of Vir.
ginia have chosen sc be their representa-
tives in Congress. Taking the record Of
Mr.. Tucker, the veracious ex-senator IN
dertakes to show, by comparison, what he
| did. and didn't do. Here is one item that
this writer knows something about, copied
from tho Malone Chronicles: Forty.
fourth Congress-First Session. ABB, fol
relief Of Charles W. Button. referred &c
| COMMITTEES on Claims, reported back, and
! died On calendar" Again: "Forty Fifth
| Congressional Session. 1917, for the
relief of g. ". Button; referred to Com
miUtee on Claims, and died there" Italics
| Mahone'a This is Che Ldst mention made
Of the item for the 'relief'' Of this writer,
! (who was then suffering from tie departure
of a Republican Tevenue collector who
s'skipped the town." leaving many other
souvenirs of the same kind), and it is set
down as being among the failures of Mr.
| Tucker to serve his constituents with any
degree of efficiency. Yet. the fact is that
Mr. Tucker got nay bill through; and L re-
ceived the money.
1t is very likely that good deal ihose OF
the record made up by the ex-senator is as
faulty and as Ear from the truth as the above.
PQZSus IN u1lo, Jtstsits IN omnibus.
q. ". BUTroN.
Lynohburg, vs., Aug. Is, 1887.
And still another exposes Malone S
erroneous statements aud false pretenses.
1t is another who knows all about the mat
tiers he refers 10. Malone falls into hands
with gloves off when Mr.. Falierson deems
it necessary to correct him.
BRISTOL, Tenn, August IS, 1887.
TO the Editor Of lie Dispatch:
Dear Sir,-As Malone claims, among
other thinge, the credit of securing tho APP
preparations for the erection of public
buildings at Abirgdon and Harrisonburg,
| think it but just that his pretensions in
| this regard should be exposed.
I introduced bill in the Forty-seventh
Congress providing for the erection Of a
public building at every place in the United
States, naming them and the amounts for
each, at which United States court was
held having no public building. This bill
included Abingdon and HarrsoDburg, and
| was the first bill ever introduced in Con-
gress providing for public bnlding at
Abingdon. This bill was referred to the
House Committee on Public Buildings, and
| went before the committee to urge its IA
vorable consideration.
The committee advised me to introduce
a separate bill for Abingdon on the ground
that the House would not pass 6 sill appro.
priating at one time the amount required
by my bill, and thereupon | introduced a
bill to authorize the erection of a public
building ST Abingdon, and abont the sahe
time John Paul, now judge, introduced d
bill for building al Hasrisonburg. Each
of these bills authorized the appropriation
of $50, 900. Before Judge Paul and rayse!f
introduced our bills, Mr.. Tucker had in
trodaesd bill appropriating 500, 900 for n
building at LyEchburg.
The bills Coz Abingdon and Harrisonbu1g
were reported favorably fqopf The commit
tee, and placed on the calendar Ct the
House. Mr.. fuckers bill was reached on
the calender before Paul's bill and mine,
and passed by the House and sonb to the
Senate. When it reached the Senate Sena-
tor Malone antagonized the bill, and tried
to defeat it :5y reducing the amount of $780,
GEO allowed by the house to $50, 900, and
lacking to the bill an appropriation of $50,
coo each for HarfisOnburg and abingdon.
Mr.. Tucker appeared before bbe Senate
Committee in opposition to MahoEe's
scheme to cut his appropriation down 10
$50, coo, ais succeeded III getting his bill
cut loose from Asailoae'S Abingdon and llar-
Tisonburg amendment @n@ reported TO the
Senate as it passed the Hoase, sud il that
shape it passed the Senate, appropT.atsns
S1O6. 0G0 for Lynchburg, in spite OF Ma
homes effort TO reduce it to $50, 200.
The Senate committee reported Mahone's
~ GSA Dn0 oaah for